[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 141 (Friday, October 9, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S12227-S12228]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO RICHARD K. BOYD

 Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to 
Dick Boyd, who will retire at the end of October after 32 years of 
service to the Westvaco Corporation. For over thirty years, Dick has 
helped establish Westvaco and the Fine Papers mill into fixtures of 
Wickliffe, Kentucky. Though not originally from Kentucky, Dick became a 
valued member of the Wickliffe community, raised his family there and 
continues to have close ties to Kentucky.
  In 1966, Dick joined Westvaco as the Assistant Public Relations 
Manager at the Fine Papers Division in Luke, Maryland. The next year, 
Westvaco announced that Wickliffe, Kentucky would be the site of a new 
$80 million mill. It was while assisting in the public relations 
details of this announcement that Dick began his long association with 
the community of Wickliffe. Later that year, Dick, his wife Malinda and 
their two daughters moved to Wickliffe. Dick became Public Relations 
Manager for Fine Papers in 1970.
  Dick held that job until 1988. During that time, he played an 
integral role as the Fine Papers mill became the bedrock of the 
Wickliffe community. After a brief stint during 1988 in the Kentucky 
State Government as Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet for Economic 
Development, Dick returned to Westvaco as Regional Public Affairs 
Manager, a position he held until 1991. At that time he moved to 
Washington to become Westvaco's Director of Public Affairs, a position 
he continues to hold today.
  Since the 1966 announcement that the plant would be built in Western 
Kentucky, Westvaco has spent more than half a billion dollars to create 
a state-of-the-art papermaking facility in Wickliffe. Today, Westvaco 
employs over 750 men and women in Kentucky, and makes an annual 
contribution of $134 million to the local economy. The growth of the 
mill and the company's great relationship with the community are a 
legacy of Dick's career at Westvaco and his 24 years in Kentucky.
  Mr. President, I have worked closely with Dick on several issues of 
great importance to both Westvaco and my constituents in the Wickliffe 
area. His hard work and dedication have allowed Westvaco to become an 
important part of the Wickliffe community. I have enjoyed working with 
him, thank him for all his efforts on behalf of Westvaco

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and the people of the Wickliffe community, and wish him the best 
wherever his future endeavors may take him.

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